Best WordPress Hosting For Serious Bloggers

Starting With your first WordPress blog, my WordPress guide will surely help any newbie and here in this guide, I will help you to select best WordPress hosting for your WordPress blog. In my 5 years of Blogging journey, I have used over 12 WordPress shared hosting, 2 managed and 1 unmanaged VPS servers.

I host almost 12 WordPress blog, 2 static sites and instead of sticking to one hosting, I keep trying new hosting when one fails. I had some pretty bad experience with Godaddy and Fatcow hosting, where as great experience with budget shared hosting companies like Bluehost and Hostgator. As a beginner, selecting the right hosting is not only crucial but also a headache. I’m sure for you money and quality matters at the same time.

Just to let you know, this post is written by keeping Wordress specific Hosting and servers in mind. Specially, with the evolution of WordPress and being one of the most downloaded self hosted blogging platform, it requires powerful servers. More over, without a powerful WordPress caching mechanism, you won’t be able to run a WordPress blog smoothly.

How I selected these best WordPress hosting options:

I have set some basic ground rule in terms of software, cPanel, security, WordPress optimized, PHP version, MySQL version and so on. Though, before I share my list of top WordPress hosts, lets look at official requirement needed to run WordPress software smoothly on any hosting environment.

One major factor on which I’m going to make this list of WebHosting sites is technical support. WordPress is a memory hungry site and requires a database and php. Common errors like “500 Internal error“, blank homepage, all posts deleted are some of the common issue which you will face with a bad hosting.

Along with above mentioned factors, I also considered what all these hosting companies are offering in package. Is it enough for you to host a medium server site or a high traffic site. Do they have a limit in terms of bandwidth and can they handle occasional traffic spike.

Now, geographical location is very important for any server these days for two reasons: Speed and latency. Server location, have a positive effect in site load time. If you are a creating a blog for great user-experience (which you should), do configure CDN on your WordPress blog.

Best WordPress Hosting for Bloggers:

I’m not going to share a big list of 10 or top 100 WordPress hosting, rather I will talk about only those web-hosting companies that I use for my blogs and something which you can buy with full confidence. I will also try to share hosting discount coupon if they have one, as this will help you to save some extra money. All of the below mentioned shared WP hosting cost below $8/month and with added discount coupons you can expect discount between 25% to 45% on total bill. So let’s get started with our list of recommended hosting companies for WordPress blogs.

Bluehost (Shared )

Bluehost is my top choice for shared hosting, and at this moment I have many sites (cydiaguide.com, wphostingdiscount.com) and few more are hosted on their server. First time I got to know about Bluehost is from official WordPress hosting recommendation page, and after trying them I find it complete value for money. They are not the cheapest hosting and one year hosting plan costs $5.95/month, but with unlimited bandwidth and storage, it’s completely value for money. You can also install multiple WordPress blogs on the same hosting package. The great thing about Bluehost is, their servers are well-optimised for running WordPress blogs, and they will let you install WordPress within 4-5 minutes literally.

I have already shared a guide with you which will help you to install WordPress blog on your Bluehost account and you can read complete guide here. I’m not getting into detailed features of Bluehost as you can read complete review here. In case if you are not in mood to read reviews and looking for quick recommendation, you should grab hosting from Bluehost. And, don’t miss the fact that you will also be getting one free domain name with your hosting purchase. That will be extra saving on your domain-name.

Hostgator is closest alternative to Bluehost. Hostgator offers almost all the features like Bluehost, but they don’t offer free domain with hosting. Hostgator offers 3 different packages in shared hosting, and if you are shopping for Hostagtor, pick the baby plan as it will let you host multiple Websites.I have shared a quick start tutorial for beginners on WordPress and Hostgator here. Hostgator shared hosting also offers quick CloudFare integration from cPanel, which adds another level of security.

I started my career with Dreamhost and it didn’t disappointed me for almost 1.6 yr. My experience was smooth and Dreamhost unlimited bandwidth and storage never stopped my site to grow until one black day, they decided not to host my site or asked me to move to VPS. Reason was: one of my plugin was causing memory issue, according to them it was “All in one SEO” and “YARPP”, which were two essential plugin back at that time. So, I decided to change my hosting and move to knownhost.

Anyhow, later after my experience with WordPress I realized, most of time hosting issue comes because of some faulty script or plugin and YARPP was reported as one such memory consuming plugin that time. For now, Dreamhost is a cheap and reliable hosting that you can opt got. They have scaled their server with Nginx and latest update for high traffic WordPress sites. Another interesting fact about Dreamhost is, they offers custom cPanel instead of default one. And also, you can quickly upgrade from shared to VPS and dedicated and that’s something which is very helpful for growing WordPress blog. Something, which other webhosting are missing.

I will do a seperate post for Best VPS hosting for WordPress, as I have used couple of them like Linode, Knownhost, Hostgator, but that’s for some other post. For now, these are some of the best WordPress hosting that I can recommend and if in future, I will get to know about any notable hosting for WordPress, I would update the page. If you find this information useful, don’t forget to share it on your Social network. If you have any specific concern about any WP hosting companies, you can drop us a message on Google plus page.